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One of the biggest challenges for foursquare is finding a way to work with companies that sell their product across a wide variety of businesses, but don’t have their own locations where they can offer specials. An innovative new partnership with Heineken in the Netherlands marks their first attempt at working with a beer brand to reward customers who visit locations where the beer is sold.
Heineken Netherlands offers rewards through foursquare
Miso: A Foursquare-Like App for Homebodies
If your Foursquare check-ins could be limited to backyard outings and trips to the mailbox, you may be interested in a new mobile application called Miso . With this service, a startup from Bazaar Labs, also the makers of a social network called Flixup!
The iTunes App Store is about to reach 10 billion downloads.
More than 60 apps have been downloaded for every iOS device sold | asymco
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If you're an early adopter, you've not doubt heard of (and probably even use) mobile "check-in" applications.
PSFK’s latest ’Future Of’ report presents key trends in the mobile tagging space, so as to inspire marketers and their creative agencies about their future use of technologies that includ PSFK’s latest ’Future Of’ report presents key trends in the mobile tagging space, so as to inspire marketers and their creative agencies about their future use of technologies that include QR codes, barcodes and Microsoft Tags in their branding activity and communication campaigns.
PSFK presents Future Of Mobile Tagging Report
Black Eyed Peas Launch the Kinda Cool 'BEP360,' But We Still Laugh
It is no secret that Switched staffers do not number among the Black Eyed Peas' fan club.App store analytics company Distimo has released a report reviewing the changes in the Apple, Android, Blackberry, and Nokia app stores in 2010, and the results are impressive for all four.
Distimo report reviewing
Apple’ App Store 300,000 apps
Apple‘s App Store now has more than 300,000 apps as of the past day. Mobclix ‘s data shows that in the past 24 hours, Apple added the 300,000th app to its App Store. The number includes both free and paid apps available for downloading.
We originally created our metrics page in the fall of 2008 to celebrate the App Store reaching a milestone of what at the time seemed amazing, 10,000 apps.